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Re:Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1 by throwaway894345 on Monday May 24, 2021 @12:23PM (#27266264)
So what's the deal? Any company that makes users opt out of diagnostic data is just as bad as the companies whose entire business model is predicated around collecting as much data as possible about you and selling it to people whose sole ambition is to manipulate you? Are these two things really equally bad? We can't acknowledge that one of those is considerably more in favor of privacy than the other--they must both be labeled "NOT PRIVACY" with all nuance eliminated? Is that where we are in our discourse?
Re:Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1 by ActorNightly on Monday May 24, 2021 @02:29PM (#27267962)
Once you get past the fact that any data you don't explicitly control is by definition not private, the next conversation is about how much you are able to trust a particular company with the data they collect, and that is really an individuals choice.

Niven stuff like iCloud leaks, and Apple bending over to appease China by removing the protest app from the app store (which completely makes it unable to be installed on any non jailbroken device btw), I personally don't really see a reason to trust them any more than Facebook or Google.

Re:Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1 by throwaway894345 on Monday May 24, 2021 @02:42PM (#27268119)
So an emphatic "yes" on all accounts then? Am I interpreting you correctly?
Re:Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1 by ActorNightly on Monday May 24, 2021 @02:51PM (#27268254)
Sure if you want to boil it down to a simple yes or no answer.
Re:Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1 by kergonath on Monday May 24, 2021 @06:48PM (#27270593)
It seems like it is. It’s like the relativity of wrong all over again. Two things being wrong does not mean that one of them is not better than the other. I am so tired of this fallacy, particularly in an otherwise well read community like here.